“What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.” InspirationalIdeasHappensBuddhismShapesPerfectionAngryUnhappyFrustratedBent Author:Frederick Lenz
“When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them up as actually as you possibly can, but sooner or later the book has got momentum and it's moving along under that momentum. It's like a sculpture, if you're working with the grain of the wood, the wood will start defining what shape it's going to become.” PeopleIfsWritingDoeBookHappensMovingLinesShapesWoodsGrainSooner Or LaterSculptureDefiningMomentum Author:Terry Pratchett
“The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.” HappensEasyProgressNeededShapesBackgroundsOver ItCompositionMessy Author:Myfanwy Pavelic
“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.” IfsMenWorldMayDoeHappensCertainGivenCausesWaitingResultsKnowledgeFateIgnoranceShapesEssentialsBlindPreparedInevitableSuperstitionsBe PreparedHelplessness Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.” HappensOrderSpeakPerfectFashionIgnoranceShapesDressesMetaphorTricksArchitectConformGothicCorinthiansSnobbyFrench Woman Author:Oliver Goldsmith
“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.” GivingHappensLinesMarriageRolesTakenOur LivesShapesSuitsPrisonerArmorHardenedSuits Of Armor Book:Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir
“Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!” WayWantBelieveRealityHappensPassionWinningChanceShapesToolsArmyPaintConvincedBe YouRipTrue Passion Author:Garth Brooks